Samuel Smiles quotes and words of wisdom

"Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action."
Found in the topic Enthusiasm.

"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The shortest way to do many things at once is to do them one at a time."
Found in the topic Time.

"A place for everything, and everything in its place."
Found in the topic Order.

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
Found in the topic Hope.

"No pains, no gains."
Found in the topic Gains.

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
Found in the topic Factory.

"Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time."
Found in the topic Accomplishment.

"It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved."
Found in the topic Observe.

Interesting Quotes

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)